Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… but the death of their eldest boy, Henry, cruelly upset their plans. An exacting mother, Hester spent years trying to teach her children only to see them die one after other: of fourteen children, only four would survive. As usual, she … for her perceived mésalliance exacted: ostracized by her old circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social circles … playwriting but neither of her attempts ever made it onto the stage. To make money, she contemplated writing a novel instead, but finally settled on British Synonymy (1793), a work of direct interest to the study of eighteenth-century …
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